When there's a grid behind
That is slightly misaligned
That's a moire
We as a society are ready for art of trans men that doesn't exclusively look like Roman statues with top surgery scars
I love when dogs and cats just let you pat the shit out of them and they enjoy it so much. Like yeah dude real quick I just need to play you like a bongo and they’re like god yes I’ve been waiting for someone to play me like a bongo
so like. obviously it's an immensely tragic route to take but sometimes it's just so satisfying for a story to go "there's no happy ending this time. resistance is futile in this scenario. the 'good guys' can't win. this is a pointless last stand. so for their final act, our beloved characters are going to rock the antagonist's shit so fucking hard it makes you stare at a wall struggling to process what just happened and how you feel about it for hours afterwards."
i simply think that sometimes it's the best possible narrative decision to allow characters to become supernovas, imploding on themselves but taking as much with them as possible. "you can't save anyone" "maybe not, but i can hurt you". fuck yes. if you can't beat them, tear them apart.
Fuck the idea that you can’t engage in sex acts with abstract concepts.
imaginarycomics
this is a pun but I was 100% ready to accept this post at face value
You can tell this is true because my first thought was "how would you not know that"
MASSIVE fan of Tiny Glasses Dave Bautista
medic tf2 yoked
Medic and Heavy's large son
I feel like practicing any skill would be way more fun if I could have a lil level increase thing that pops up in front of me every time I do good like in Skyrim
“Push ups increased to level 5”
“Writing dialogue increased to level 37”
“Coping mechanisms (healthy) increased to level 18”
I've been scream laughing at this for several days
the first time i ever saw this video it made me spit out my drink all over my desk which is somewhat ironic considering the content of this video
undergoing a process of embiggening
good lord
How much water did you ADD?!?
this is peak trans culture because this would have been easier with very nearly any other guitar design but she just haaad to use one shaped like the letter e. Not afraid of a challenge. Respect.
I would like to add that their name is E, literally just the letter E, like they’re in a spy movie. As if that wasn’t cool enough already she went and got a guitar shaped like her name. Fucking icon.
Thought you might enjoy this. For whatever reason it only specifies dinosaur with fancy pigeons and no other bird for me tho lol
google is a weird place but I'll take it!
raccooninatesco-deactivated2023
calling a bird a dinosaur has the same energy as white americans with 1 (one) distant ancestor from a european country saying they’re from that country
extraordinarily false
a dinosaur is defined as the most recent common ancestor of megalosaurus and iguanodon (saurischia + ornithischia) and all of that ancestor's descendants
ALL
how we define who comes from what country is not nearly so clear
birds are living dinosaurs. the story of dinosaurs continued after 66 million years ago. arguably, dinosaurs are doing better than ever - they are significantly more diverse now than they were 66 million years ago, or at any point in the mesozoic.
please do not correct a paleontologist on dinosaurs on the internet, you will only embarrass yourself.
exactly!
how we classify living things is based SOLELY on their ancestral relationships. SOLELY. it is a clear cut system.
birds are a specific group of dinosaurs, which are a specific group of archosaurs, which are a specific group of reptiles, which are a specific group of tetrapods, which are a specific group of lobe-finned fish, which are a specific group of vertebrates, which are -
etc.
humans are a specific group of apes, which are a specific group of primates, which are a specific group of mammals, which are a specific group of tetrapods, which are a specific group of lobe-finned fish, which are a specific group of vertebrates, which are -
etc.
its the same principle.
the ONLY reason people have trouble with "birds are dinosaurs" is because they've conceptualized dinosaurs as movie monsters or evolutionary mistakes, and gd forbid anyone ever question their wrong assumptions about anything, right?
the thing that always bewilders me is how hostile people are to the idea that birds are living dinosaurs, that we were wrong about dinosaurs being completely extinct, EVEN THOUGH birds are *the only taxon* of dinosaurs that survived. I don’t get it! Both ideas are still correct, (most of the dinosaurs died out, but a couple avialans survived and their descendants are here) we are just very lucky that the last scion of the dinosaurs is right here with us, and is in fact not a drone made by the government. Why does that upset or offend people that we were wrong in the past and now we are slightly less wrong?
so at this point, I'm talking in the general, not directing anything at racooninatesco (who has thanked for the evolution lesson and does not deserve any more comments directed at them)
anyways, in general:
- society is predicated on the belief that humans deserve to rule the planet (no one should rule, we are ALL equal partners)
- that is predicated on the idea that humans are the pinnacle of [evolution and or creation] (we are not. and creationism is a delusion.)
- that is predicated on the idea that evolution is "headed towards something" (it's not)
- that extrapolates to the idea that all mammals are The Best because Humans are The Best and Humans are Mammals (which... mammals are the least diverse group of vertebrates... so no)
- part of that myth is very much based in the idea that mammals are the natural successors of Ruling the World (bc we think Megafauna = Ruling the World, even though... no, bacteria rule the world)
- mammals being the natural successors means that dinosaurs were naturally failures (nope, nonavians only went extinct because of an extraterrestrial impact event)
- so, the idea that birds are living dinosaurs not only contradicts the idea that dinosaurs were failures and mammals were always going to succeed them (when mammals only are the current megafauna because of a lucky accident of space), but also points out that dinosaurs are doing BETTER post-asteroid than pre-asteroid (small animals tend to be more diverse and, in evolution, more diverse = more successful)
- so the minute you unravel the "dinosaurs all died out" myth, all of society's founding myths fall apart
- and that terrifies literally everyone because suddenly, we can't justify the fact that we're literally killing the planet for our own monetary gain.
personally, as an anarchist, I revel in this entire chain of events and scream "burn society to the ground", but like. that's a different discussion.
why are you the coolest person
statistical error. the coolest person in the world is, objectively, someone who doesn't spend all their time on tumblr
Ya know what, if this loses me followers idgaf.
I fucking love men. Not just trans men but cis men. Cishet men. All of them. They're wonderful and beautiful and so often very full of whimsy.
Yeah I get it, some people are absolute trash. But that doesn't mean I can't love men for who they are and what they give to my life.
Love this post
It hurts a bit when people say stuff like not ALL men are bad, some men are gay, or trans! It's as if they view all cishet men as inherently dangerous. Enough of this gender essentialist bullshit perpetuated in supposedly queer feminist spaces